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Director of Photography

Casey Brooks

Bio

While earning his degree in Television/Video Production from Columbia College-Hollywood, Casey served as Director of Photography for the Seth Himes short film Hopeless Romantics and collaborated on a documentary short written by Chris called Dave Valle and Esperanza International. They co-produced and co-directed the project which placed third in the prestigious St. Christopher's National Video Magazine Contest, and was broadcast on the Odyssey Network. Casey has co-produced, edited and directed photography on nine short films since college. He served as a Production Coordinator for Comcast in Los Angeles for two years where he was responsible for the coordination of original programming among producers and worked as a camera operator on various projects for Entertainment Tonight and networks such as PAX, Wealth TV, and CNN.

Director of Photography- Job Description

A cinematographer who is ultimately responsible for the process of recording a scene in the manner desired by the director. The Director of Photography has a number of possible duties: selection of film stock, cameras, and lenses; designing and selecting lighting, directing the gaffer's placement of lighting; shot composition (in consultation with the director); film developing and film printing.